Cisco + LogRhythm: Smarter, Faster Security Through Integrations

Smarter, faster security through LogRhythm and Cisco integrations

LogRhythm and Cisco are committed to helping you enhance your security operations through the seamless integration and powerful capabilities of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform and Cisco’s Threat Grid, Umbrella, Firepower and ISE.

Currently integrating with over three dozen Cisco products, LogRhythm provides centralized visibility and advanced security analytics across the Cisco-enabled environment and makes security events actionable in the network. Stay in front of cyber adversaries and proactively detect, respond to and remediate cyberthreats with this powerful integration.

There’s no question about it: Legacy SIEMs hinder your ability to achieve your security objectives. Traditional solutions are limited and often lack the flexibility to scale and grow as your security needs increase. To combat today’s threats, you need a next-gen SIEM that leverages the architecture and security capabilities that are best suited to detect both known and unknown threats within your environment. But what makes a SIEM “next-gen”? And how do you know if the SIEM technology you’re looking at possesses these requirements?

In this on-demand webcast, Christopher Crowley, senior instructor at SANS, and Barbara Filkins, senior analyst at SANS, join Sara Kingsley, senior product marketing manager at LogRhythm, to explain what comprises a modern SIEM solution and share tips for evaluating a next-gen SIEM platform.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

How next-gen SIEM capabilities map to the modern security team’s needs
The architectural requirements for a solution to support these needs
The evaluation steps you can take to select the best SIEM for you
The questions you should ask SIEM vendors to support your evaluation process

Watch the webcast now to get the tools you need to evaluate and choose a next-gen SIEM that fits the needs of your organization’s requirements.

LogRhythm and Cisco are committed to helping you enhance your security operations through the seamless integration and powerful capabilities of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform and Cisco’s Threat Grid, Umbrella, Firepower and ISE.

Currently integrating with over three dozen Cisco products, LogRhythm provides centralized visibility and advanced security analytics across the Cisco-enabled environment and makes security events actionable in the network. Stay in front of cyber adversaries and proactively detect, respond to and remediate cyberthreats with this powerful integration.

Too often, when looking for malicious network traffic, you either search for known bad network traffic or investigate anomalous traffic that doesn’t look normal. That reactive approach is time consuming, and potentially over-reliant on searching for larger concerns. Fortunately, new solutions use advanced network analytics to proactively identify, enrich and alert on malicious traffic.

Why is this important?

Detecting known bad network traffic is great when it works, but it’s a lot like signature-based AV (which is rigid and unable to detect unknown threats). Often it is only really effective for widespread, generalized attacks – not so great for unique targeted attacks. Further, there’s an indefinite amount of time before the malicious traffic signature, domain name or IP makes it into the pattern updates and threat intel feeds from your vendors.

Detecting anomalous traffic can address the aforementioned weaknesses, but in practice it depends heavily on how – and how well – you define anomalous traffic, and how quickly (accurately) you can spot it.

Security practitioners are getting better by the day at looking for anomalies. Here’s just a few we’ll focus on in our webinar:
- Unrecognized port protocol numbers
- Malformed/non-compliant traffic compared to protocol expected on known port
- Protocols you don’t want or at least don’t expect to see in the given context
- Disproportionate inbound/outbound bandwidth usage for a given endpoint
- Suspicious Destination/Source IP combinations

In this webinar, Randy Franklin Smith (of Ultimate Windows Security) and Rick Fernandez (of LogRhythm) will explore how to analyze your network so that you can learn and understand its traffic patterns and get a handle for what’s normal. You’ll then be able to take this information and look for anomalous traffic, build known-bad detections and make your network detection and response (NDR) technologies and efforts smarter.

Today’s hackers often favor the phishing email as their weapon of choice. Phishing attacks are not only common, but are also very difficult to defend against. What if you could detect and mitigate a phishing attack before its intended target clicks on that fatal link or opens that malicious attachment?

When your Exchange server is in the Office 365 cloud, solutions such as constant inbox scanning or relying on synchronous mail flow aren’t viable options. Instead, you can find a strong defense against phishing emails in the Message Tracking log in Exchange.

The Message Tracking log is available in both on-prem Exchange and Office 365 Cloud’s Exchange Online. Message Tracking logs include valuable information about the client, servers, sender, recipients, message subject, and more. If you can access this information and know how to mine it, you can detect likely phishing emails.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

- Recognize the format of message tracking logs
- Pull message tracking logs from Office 365 using PowerShell’s Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet
- Work through a list of checks to perform against message tracking events to detect phishing emails
- Move suspect emails to a sandbox where you can use analysis tools like PhishTank, ThreatGRID, or OpenDNS
- Remove copies of phishing emails from other recipients
- Automatically detect and respond to phishing attacks with no analyst intervention
- To optimize your phishing response efficiency, LogRhythm has introduced a new open-source Phishing Intelligence Engine (PIE). PIE is a PowerShell framework focused on phishing attack detection and response.

Register for the webinar now to learn how you can use LogRhythm’s PIE and Office 365 to better detect and respond to phishing attacks.

One of the common complaints I hear from security professionals is, “I don’t have the budget for that.” Do you know many of the tools that can solve problems in the enterprise are free, as in free beer? You don’t have to buy commercial products to secure your entire enterprise. Sure, there are some areas that do require a PO, however, there are also several areas of your security program that can be implemented using free and/or open source tools.

Learn which aspects of your security program can benefit the most from these tools, and how to configure and use them. (Free beer will NOT be provided during this webcast, however, you are encouraged to bring your own, as the presenter’s jokes may be funnier if you are enjoying an adult beverage.)

Steve Kaufman, a Technical Product Manager from LogRhythm, will be joining the webinar to cover how security technology vendors are aligning with open source tools. He’ll explore how LogRhythm’s architecture, including elasticsearch, enables the product to integrate with open source tools.

Dabble or Deep Dive: 7 Different Threat Hunts You Can Do With Available Resources

In this real training for free session, we will discuss the minimum toolset and data requirements (and not necessarily volume) you need for successful threat hunting. We will take into account that while some of you can devote most of your time to threat hunting, most of us have limited time and resources for this activity. The good news is that threat hunting is flexible and anyone can do it, ranging from a few hours a week to full-time.

As just one example, a great type of threat hunting is to look for unrecognized/suspicious executables running on you network. You can dip your toe in the water with this type of hunt with a small commitment of time and resources or you can plunge in deep with a major data collection and analysis effort. Starting out simple means you just focus on EXE names; baseline the EXE names being executed on your network, and then perform a daily review of new EXE names showing up for the first time. You can get this information from event ID 4688 and the query capabilities are very light. But I think you’ll be surprised what you are able to learn and catch.

We will take the same approach with a total of 7 types of threat hunting:

LogRhythm is sponsoring this real training for free event and Nathan Quist (aka “Q”) is helping me on this event. Q is LogRythm’s Threat Research Engineer and works with LogRhythm’s internal SOC team and its clients to perform deep dives into their environments to uncover threats facing our industry.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is quickly becoming a focal point in the security world — and for good reason. This framework provides a consistent, industry-wide standard on which you can assess the effectiveness of your security monitoring and alerting capabilities.

In this webinar, we will zero in on using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to focus and prepare your threat detection capabilities.

Here are the 5 techniques we’ve selected, based off the tactic prevalence:

We’ll explore each one of these techniques with you, highlighting how the attackers use them and how you can detect them. We will discuss which logs you need to be collecting, what audit policy needs to enabled, and what you need to look for in those logs.These 5 techniques each come from a different Tactic category in ATT&CK, and relate to different phases in an attack’s lifecycle. Mature threat detection and response requires that you have capabilities across the threat lifecycle, from initial access through command and control and into exfiltration.

Dan Kaiser and Brian Coulson from, LogRhythm, will demonstrate how to use each of these techniques with an actual SIEM. Brian and Dan are part of a large project at LogRhythm Labs in which they are aligning MITRE ATT&ACK with their SIEM platform.

When coupled with a SIEM solution, the MITRE ATT&CK framework allows you to effectively test your security monitoring environment against attack techniques to validate that your technology and rules are truly working and alert you to the right anomalous behavior.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

1. How to incorporate ATT&CK to work in your environment
2. Building out practical, technical threat detection
3. How to use SIEM technology and logs for threat hunting

If your team still heavily relies on manual processes or struggles with a lack of skilled resources, tools, and budget, then automation and integration could be the answer to improve your security operations.

Automation of everyday security operations will simplify and streamline your teams’ workflow and allow them to put their skills to better use on more complex tasks. Despite the benefits, 59 percent of SANS survey respondents still use little to no automation of key security and incident response (IR) tasks.

Why have organizations been slow to embrace automation?
In this webcast series, Emily Laufer, product marketing manager at LogRhythm, and several industry experts come together to discuss the new SANS survey findings on automation and integration. They’ll discuss what holds most organizations back from automating more security processes and provide advice on the step’s teams can take to overcome automation challenges and realize its benefits.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:
•What key activities respondents want to automate so you can identify gaps in your team’s processes
•How to work through automation challenges while considering the potential risks of each
•How to use security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) to make your teams’ job easier and more effective
•Best practices for integration

Watch now to learn how automation can bring your team, process, and technology together to move your security operations forward.

In this webcast, we take an actual real-world example of a SIEM (in this case LogRhythm), and an IAM (Okta), and demonstrate how their integration matures an organization’s security posture.

Randy Franklin Smith (of UWS) and Greg Foss (LogRhythm) dive into how Security Analysts can make more informed decisions and perform better investigations when they have a full picture of IAM events spanning on-prem and cloud-based activity — and how organizations can respond rapidly to security alarms with automatic protective measures.

Greg Foss is a recognized security expert who created LogRhythm Invoke-Okta, a bidirectional integration framework that provides for easy interaction and automation with Okta and the LogRhythm SIEM.

In this webcast, you'll learn how to:
• Visualize and analyze data from Okta in your SIEM
• Identify accounts that have compromised credentials by monitoring for successful authentications paired with failed multifactor logins
• Utilize the Okta API to automate security tasks
• Build upon identity monitoring to work towards a “Zero Trust” architecture

MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base and framework that lists and details adversary tactics and techniques within a common taxonomy. Having a taxonomy by itself has many valuable uses, such as providing a common vocabulary for exchanging information with others in the security community. But it also serves as a real technical framework for classifying your current detection efforts and identifying gaps where you are blind to certain types of attack behaviors.

In this webinar, Randy Franklin Smith of Ultimate Windows Security and Brian Coulson of LogRhythm will introduce viewers to MITRE ATT&CK, as well as:

- Share various ways to use ATT&CK, specifically in relation to designing, enhancing, assessing, and maintaining your security monitoring efforts.
- Discuss LogRhythm Labs’ project that includes aligning the ATT&CK matrix with log sources.
- Walk through an example of the MITRE attack process from start to finish while focusing on rule development and alignment in the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform.

Brian Coulson, from LogRhythm Labs, is leading an outstanding project at LogRhythm Labs where-in he will show you how they’re aligning the ATT&CK matrix with log sources, including windows event logs (XML – Security, XML Sysmon 8.0 and XML-System). While the matrix is wide spread in what it monitors, there are effective ways to filter around common and relevant detection techniques and logs.

Too often, when looking for malicious network traffic you either search for known bad or investigate anomalous traffic that doesn’t look normal. That reactive approach is time consuming, and potentially over-reliant on searching for larger concerns. Fortunately, new solutions use advanced analytics to proactively identify, enrich and alert on malicious traffic.

Why is this important?

Detecting known bad traffic is great when it works, but it’s a lot like signature-based AV (which is rigid and unable to detect unknown threats):
**Only really effective for widespread, generalized attacks – not so great for unique targeted attacks
**There’s an indefinite amount of time before the malicious traffic signature, domain name or IP makes it into the pattern updates and threat intel feeds from your vendors
**Detecting anomalous traffic can address the aforementioned weaknesses, but in practice it depends heavily on how – and how well – you define anomalous traffic, and how quickly (accurately) you can spot it.

Security practitioners are getting better by the day at looking for anomalies. Here’s just a few:

**Protocols
**Unrecognized port protocol numbers
**Malformed/non-compliant traffic compared to protocol expected on known port
**Protocols you don’t want or at least don’t expect to see in the given context
**High bandwidth usage for that protocol
**Traffic patterns
**Disproportionate inbound/outbound bandwidth usage for a given endpoint
**Suspicious Destination/Source IP combinations

In this real training for free event, we will explore how to analyze your network so that you can learn and understand its traffic patterns and get a handle for what’s normal. You’ll then be able to take this information and look for anomalous traffic, build known-bad detections and make your network detection and response (NDR) technologies and efforts smarter.

Email security continues to be a central concern for organizations as they advance their security posture and reduce risk. Between password leaks, brute force attacks and phishing, email credentials and actual email sends continue to be at jeopardy. Of further concern is that missing the initial compromise – often via email platforms – can enable the attacker to collect data and move laterally into more valuable environments.

In this webinar, Susana Hernansanz and Sam Straka – both Technical Product Managers at LogRhythm - will highlight the value of ingesting and monitoring O365 logs via your NextGen SIEM. With LogRhythm the data will be enriched, normalized and contextualized for efficient use in threat hunting and alarms.

There’s no question about it: Legacy SIEMs hinder your ability to achieve your security objectives. Traditional solutions are limited and often lack the flexibility to scale and grow as your security needs increase. To combat today’s threats, you need a next-gen SIEM that leverages the architecture and security capabilities that are best suited to detect both known and unknown threats within your environment. But what makes a SIEM “next-gen”? And how do you know if the SIEM technology you’re looking at possesses these requirements?

In this on-demand webcast, Christopher Crowley, senior instructor at SANS, and Barbara Filkins, senior analyst at SANS, join Sara Kingsley, senior product marketing manager at LogRhythm, to explain what comprises a modern SIEM solution and share tips for evaluating a next-gen SIEM platform.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

- How next-gen SIEM capabilities map to the modern security team’s needs
- The architectural requirements for a solution to support these needs
- The evaluation steps you can take to select the best SIEM for you
- The questions you should ask SIEM vendors to support your evaluation process

Watch the webcast now to get the tools you need to evaluate and choose a next-gen SIEM that fits the needs of your organization’s requirements.

There’s no question about it: Legacy SIEMs hinder your ability to achieve your security objectives. Traditional solutions are limited and often lack the flexibility to scale and grow as your security needs increase. To combat today’s threats, you need a next-gen SIEM that leverages the architecture and security capabilities that are best suited to detect both known and unknown threats within your environment. But what makes a SIEM “next-gen”? And how do you know if the SIEM technology you’re looking at possesses these requirements?

In this on-demand webcast, Christopher Crowley, senior instructor at SANS, and Barbara Filkins, senior analyst at SANS, join Sara Kingsley, senior product marketing manager at LogRhythm, to explain what comprises a modern SIEM solution and share tips for evaluating a next-gen SIEM platform.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

How next-gen SIEM capabilities map to the modern security team’s needs
The architectural requirements for a solution to support these needs
The evaluation steps you can take to select the best SIEM for you
The questions you should ask SIEM vendors to support your evaluation process

Watch the webcast now to get the tools you need to evaluate and choose a next-gen SIEM that fits the needs of your organization’s requirements.

MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base that features adversary tactics and techniques. In this webinar, Randy Franklin Smith of Ultimate Windows Security and Brian Coulson of LogRhythm will introduce viewers to MITRE ATT&CK, as well as:

- Share various ways to use ATT&CK, specifically in relation to designing, enhancing, assessing, and maintaining your security monitoring efforts.
- Discuss LogRhythm Labs’ project that includes aligning the ATT&CK matrix with log sources.
- Walk through an example of the MITRE attack process from start to finish while focusing on rule development and alignment in the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform.

Dabble or Deep Dive: 7 Different Threat Hunts You Can Do With Available Resources

In this real training for free session, we will discuss the minimum toolset and data requirements (and not necessarily volume) you need for successful threat hunting. We will take into account that while some of you can devote most of your time to threat hunting, most of us have limited time and resources for this activity. The good news is that threat hunting is flexible and anyone can do it, ranging from a few hours a week to full-time.

As just one example, a great type of threat hunting is to look for unrecognized/suspicious executables running on you network. You can dip your toe in the water with this type of hunt with a small commitment of time and resources or you can plunge in deep with a major data collection and analysis effort. Starting out simple means you just focus on EXE names; baseline the EXE names being executed on your network, and then perform a daily review of new EXE names showing up for the first time. You can get this information from event ID 4688 and the query capabilities are very light. But I think you’ll be surprised what you are able to learn and catch.

We will take the same approach with a total of 7 types of threat hunting:

LogRhythm is sponsoring this real training for free event and Nathan Quist (aka “Q”) is helping me on this event. Q is LogRythm’s Threat Research Engineer and works with LogRhythm’s internal SOC team and its clients to perform deep dives into their environments to uncover threats facing our industry.

LogRhythm and Cisco are committed to helping you enhance your security operations through the seamless integration and powerful capabilities of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform and Cisco’s Threat Grid, Umbrella, Firepower and ISE.

Currently integrating with over three dozen Cisco products, LogRhythm provides centralized visibility and advanced security analytics across the Cisco-enabled environment and makes security events actionable in the network. Stay in front of cyber adversaries and proactively detect, respond to and remediate cyberthreats with this powerful integration.

One of the common complaints I hear from security professionals is, “I don’t have the budget for that.” Do you know many of the tools that can solve problems in the enterprise are free, as in free beer? You don’t have to buy commercial products to secure your entire enterprise. Sure, there are some areas that do require a PO, however, there are also several areas of your security program that can be implemented using free and/or open source tools.

Learn which aspects of your security program can benefit the most from these tools, and how to configure and use them. (Free beer will NOT be provided during this webcast, however, you are encouraged to bring your own, as the presenter’s jokes may be funnier if you are enjoying an adult beverage.)

Steve Kaufman, a Technical Product Manager from LogRhythm, will be joining the webinar to cover how security technology vendors are aligning with open source tools. He’ll explore how LogRhythm’s architecture, including elasticsearch, enables the product to integrate with open source tools.

LogRhythm and Cisco are committed to helping you enhance your security operations through the seamless integration and powerful capabilities of the LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management platform and Cisco’s Threat Grid, Umbrella, Firepower and ISE.

Currently integrating with over three dozen Cisco products, LogRhythm provides centralized visibility and advanced security analytics across the Cisco-enabled environment and makes security events actionable in the network. Stay in front of cyber adversaries and proactively detect, respond to and remediate cyberthreats with this powerful integration.

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